Both engines caught fire on a small commercial plane that crashed on a Texas highway in June, preventing pilots from reaching a nearby airport, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary investigation report released Friday. The pilots had looked for a field or other flat areas to land before the crash, but air
PHOENIX — The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act and eliminates a key protection for endangered wildlife from logging, oil drilling and other activities. The administration narrowed the definition of “damage” under the landmark law, a change with broad implications. For decades, the government defined harm
LOS ANGELES — A rapidly spreading fire prompted evacuation orders Friday afternoon in a sparsely populated area of Los Angeles County. The wildfire ignited around 1 p.m. in dry, scorching heat conditions in a remote desert region about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Temperatures
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. He died June 26 in Oklahoma and was the last polio patient in the United States to use the machine, his sister said. She was 78 years old. “They told him he wasn’t supposed to
A Democratic senator alleged Saturday that whistleblowers have detailed several problems stemming from the hasty or inadequate reconstruction of the Kennedy Center, adding a new layer to the arts complex’s travails as President Donald Trump sought to seize control of it and its name. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island said in a statement Saturday that
WASHINGTON– WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed the remnants of the government’s landmark case against far-right Proud Boys members who were convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting to attack the Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in the White House more than five years ago. The dismissal of the case Friday night became